Urban Sociolinguistics
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This book focuses on what people are doing with language in urban settings around the world. In studying situated language life in fourteen cities, from New York to Shanghai, the authors present these cities as sociolinguistic systems in their own rights, show how they are changing, reveal differences and congruencies and what can be learned for theory. Providing new perspectives on crucial themes such as language choice and language contact, code-switching and mixing, language and identity, language policy and planning and social networks, this is key reading for all in the area of…mehr

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This book focuses on what people are doing with language in urban settings around the world. In studying situated language life in fourteen cities, from New York to Shanghai, the authors present these cities as sociolinguistic systems in their own rights, show how they are changing, reveal differences and congruencies and what can be learned for theory. Providing new perspectives on crucial themes such as language choice and language contact, code-switching and mixing, language and identity, language policy and planning and social networks, this is key reading for all in the area of multilingualism and super-diversity within sociolinguistics, applied linguistics and urban studies.
Autorenporträt
Dick Smakman is Lecturer at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He has taught courses in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at universities in the Netherlands, England, Poland and Japan. Patrick Heinrich is Associate Professor at the Department of Asian and Mediterranean African Studies at Ca' Foscari University in Venice, Italy. Together, they are the co-editors of Globalising Sociolinguistics (2015).